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| 2006 Records: 1-9 MIAC, 5-19 Overall |
| Last Week's Results: Augsburg 13, Saint Mary's 11 / Details Augsburg 11, Saint Mary's 1 / Details Saint Mary's 7, Luther 4 / Details Saint Mary's 6, Luther 4 (8) / Details St. Thomas 7, Saint Mary's 1 / Details St. Thomas 5, Saint Mary's 4 / Details |
| Upcoming Events: Wed., April 19: Macalester at SMU, 2:30 p.m. Sat., April 22: SMU at Gustavus, 1 p.m. |
| Cardinal News and Notes: The Cardinals snapped their season-high seven-game losing streak with a 7-4 Game 1 win over Luther last Thursday. … SMU swept its nonconference DH vs. Luther, marking the first time this season SMU has posted a doubleheader sweep. … SMU's 13-11 loss to Augsburg last Tuesday marked a pair of season highs — most runs scored, and most runs allowed. … Dan Cosgrove (South St. Paul, Minn.), who hit .474 with seven RBIs and a .632 slugging percentage last week, went a perfect 5-for-5 and drove in three of SMU's Game 2 runs in their two losses vs. No. 12 St. Thomas last Saturday. … Cosgrove now shares the team lead in multiple-hit games (7) with Kevin Black (Mathomedi, Minn.). … Andy Pass (Roseville, Minn.) picked up his first collegiate pitching win last week, allowing one earned run in 6.2 innings in SMU's Game 1 win vs. Luther. … Robbie Johnson (Lake Elmo, Minn.) went 0-for-2 in Game 2 vs. St. Thomas, snapping his season-high seven-game hitting streak. … Brady Knudsen (Racine, Wis.) is currently riding a six-game hit streak. … With their Game 1 loss to UST, the Cardinals fall to 0-12 when scoring two or less runs. … SMU has outscored its opponents 20-8 in the seventh inning, but are still just 2-18 when trailing after six innings. |
Cardinals crash land in back-to-back losses to UST
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A streak-snapping, nonconference sweep will do that to a team.
Saturday afternoon, the Cardinals crash-landed.
A pair of Minnesota Intercollegiate Athletic Conference losses will do that to a team.
The Cardinals, who snapped a seven-game losing streak with their 7-4, 6-4 sweep of Luther Thursday — SMU's first doubleheader sweep of the season — were no match for No. 12 St. Thomas Saturday, as the Tommies cruised to a 7-1, 5-4 sweep last Saturday afternoon.
"It's hard to feel too disappointed, I thought we played very well," said SMU coach Nick Whaley. "St. Thomas is a very good team, but in the first game, we made them out to be better than they are. We played very tight in the first game — we played the tradition (of St. Thomas), rather than the game of baseball."
The Tommies scored in every inning but the fourth in knocking off SMU in the opener, plating two runs in the first, one in the second, two in the third and one in both the fifth and sixth. The Cardinals, meanwhile, scored their lone run in the fifth on an RBI single by Brady Knudsen (Racine, Wis.).
SMU got on the board first in the rematch, scoring once in the first inning, but the Tommies responded with a single run in the second and four more in the third to take a 5-1 advantage. The Cardinals made things interesting, getting single runs in the fourth and fifth to cut the lead to 5-4, but that was as close as they would get.
"To lose two to St. Thomas is a little disappointing, but we got some very good individual performances, and I thought overall we played pretty well," said Whaley, who got a stellar showing from senior Dan Cosgrove (South St. Paul, Minn.) — who went 5-for-5 on the day and drove in three of SMU's four Game 2 runs. "I've said all season that the key for us is to keep getting better every day — and, despite the way it may look on the scoreboard sometimes, that's exactly what we're doing."